cheesepare

English

Etymology

cheese +‎ pare

Verb

cheesepare (third-person singular simple present cheesepares, present participle cheeseparing, simple past and past participle cheesepared)

  1. (intransitive) To pinch pennies; to be stingy or miserly.
    • 2001, Sheila Fletcher, Victorian Girls: Lord Lyttelton's Daughters
      None of which he grudged, for he felt, like his father the third Baron, that one should never cheesepare on boys' education.
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